[Mesa-dev] [PATCH] ralloc: Omit detailed license information about talloc.

[Brian Paul]

On 05/09/2014 03:55 AM, jfonseca at vmware.com wrote:
> From: José Fonseca <jfonseca at vmware.com>
>
> That information misleads source code auditing tools to think that
> ralloc itself is released under LGPL v3.
>
> Instead, simply state talloc is not licensed under a permissive license.
> ---
>   src/glsl/ralloc.h | 7 +++----
>   1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/src/glsl/ralloc.h b/src/glsl/ralloc.h
> index 4581a7a..70f7d9c 100644
> --- a/src/glsl/ralloc.h
> +++ b/src/glsl/ralloc.h
> @@ -38,10 +38,9 @@
>    * Tridgell's talloc, but ralloc is an independent implementation
>    * released under the MIT license and tuned for Mesa.
>    *
> - * The talloc implementation is available under the GNU Lesser
> - * General Public License (GNU LGPL), version 3 or later. It is
> - * more sophisticated than ralloc in that it includes reference
> - * counting and debugging features. See: http://talloc.samba.org/
> + * The talloc implementation is not available under a permissive
> + * license. It is more sophisticated than ralloc in that it includes
> + * reference counting and debugging features. See: http://talloc.samba.org/
>    */
>
>   #ifndef RALLOC_H
>

Reviewed-by: Brian Paul <brianp at vmware.com>